National Security Advisor Mike Waltz Breaks Silence on the “Embarrassing” Signal Chat Leak: “I Take Full Responsibility. I Built the Group”

In an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz broke his silence on the now-infamous Signal app leak that included the infiltration of a Trump administration national security group chat by a Trump-hating Atlantic editor—a scandal that the far-left media is using to deflect from the administration’s recent string of foreign policy victories.

“Look, I’m not a conspiracy nut,” Waltz began, “But of all the people out there, somehow this guy who has lied about the President, who has lied to Gold Star families, lied to their attorneys, and gone to Russia hoax, gone to just all kinds of lengths to lie and smear the President of the United States—and he’s the one that somehow gets on somebody’s contact and then gets sucked into this group.”

Host Laura Ingraham pressed Waltz on whether an intel team member could be stirring the pot. But Waltz shot down the idea.

Laura Ingraham:
Is someone in your intel team trying to cause trouble here? Because that’s the scuttlebutt out there.

Tim Walz:
We have people… No. Look, this is a great group. The President has a great team. This is not first-term.

Laura Ingraham:
No, your team. I’m not talking about the other principals?

Tim Walz:
No, no, no. These were principals and a couple of staff that were coordinating, as you saw, having a policy discussion as we went forward. Then, just in the days before, what was an incredible strike. But not only did we take out people that the Biden team never could, we took out headquarters, missile caches, and actually one of the leaders of the Houthi organization. We’ve since taken out several since. That’s what they don’t want to talk about.

…It’s embarrassing, yes. We’re going to get to the bottom of it. I just talked to Elon on the way here. We’ve got the best technical minds looking at how this happened. But I can tell you for 100%, I don’t know this guy.

The mystery deepened as Ingraham grilled Waltz on how the editor’s number ended up in the chat. Determined to get answers, she pushed harder, questioning why Goldberg’s number was even saved on his phone.

Waltz doubled down, insisting the contact must have “sucked in somehow” – though he couldn’t explain how. He claimed the person he thought was in the group chat wasn’t there—it was Goldberg instead. When Ingraham asked who he was actually expecting, Waltz refused to name the person.

Tim Walz:
Well, look, a staffer wasn’t responsible. Look, I take full responsibility. I built the group. My job is to make sure everything’s coordinated. But how does that—I don’t mean to be pedantic here, but how did the number get into the chat? Have you ever had somebody’s contact that shows their name, and then you have somebody else’s number there?

Laura Ingraham:
I never make those mistakes.

Tim Walz:
You’ve got somebody else’s number on someone else’s contact. Of course, I didn’t see this loser in the group. It looked like someone else. Now, whether he did it deliberately or it happened in some other technical means is something we’re trying to figure out.

Laura Ingraham:
A staffer did not put his contact information?

Tim Walz:
Of course not. No.

Laura Ingraham:
But how did it end up in your phone?

Tim Walz:
That’s what we’re trying to figure out.

Laura Ingraham:
But that’s a pretty big problem.

Tim Walz:
That is why we’ve got the best technical minds, right? That’s disturbing. I’m sure everybody out there has had a contact where it said one person and then a different phone number.

Laura Ingraham:
But you’ve never talked to him before, so how’s the number on your phone? I’m not an expert in any of this, but it’s just curious. How’s the number on your phone? Someone sent you that contact?

Tim Walz:
Well, if you have somebody else’s contact and then somehow it gets sucked in…

Laura Ingraham:
Was there someone else supposed to be on the chat that wasn’t on the chat—that you thought was on the chat? That you thought was on there?

Tim Walz:
The person that I thought was on there was never on there. It was this guy.

Laura Ingraham:
Who was that person?

Tim Walz:
Well, I’m not—look, Laura, I take responsibility. I built the group. But look, that’s the part we have to figure out. That’s the part that we were… Embarrassing, yes, but Pete and I are veterans. We know these operations. He has been an excellent Secretary of Defense, and this was an operation that—I mean, it amazes me. I guess the Democrats were fine to leave all the sea lanes shut down. We’re fine to have destroyers fired on dozens of times by this terrorist group and fine to have Iran keep supplying them with missiles. That was okay. The President takes decisive action. Now we’re seeing some real success in taking down their air defenses, opening the sea lanes, taking out their leadership. We don’t want to talk about that. We don’t want to talk about this.

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